- Flexner bacillus dysentery
- Flex·ner bacillus, dysentery (fleksґnər) [Simon Flexner, American pathologist, 1863–1946] see Shigella flexneri, and see bacillary dysentery, under dysentery.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Flexner bacillus dysentery
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Flexner, Simon — ▪ American pathologist and bacteriologist born March 25, 1863, Louisville, Ky., U.S. died May 2, 1946, New York, N.Y. American pathologist and bacteriologist who isolated (1899) a common strain (Shigella dysenteriae) of dysentery bacillus… … Universalium
Shigella — A group of bacteria that normally inhabit the intestinal tract and cause infantile gastroenteritis, summer diarrhea of childhood and various forms of dysentery including epidemic and opportunistic bacillary dysentery. Named for the Japanese… … Medical dictionary
Shigella flexneri — a species that causes severe bacillary dysentery. It has six serovars and two variants (X and Y); type 2 produces an enterotoxin. The organisms ferment mannitol but not lactose. Called also Flexner bacillus … Medical dictionary
